This fall 2024 issue of the Canadian Journal of Physician Leadership (CJPL) is a bit late. This deliberate delay is aimed at streamlining CJPL’s publication timeline to allow more time between issues for other commitments of CJPL staff and to accommodate the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders’ annual conference in May. Thus, CJPL will be published three times a year in February, July, and October.

A new addition to the CJPL team is an associate editor, Dr. Nikhita Singhal. Dr. Singhal is a Canadian psychiatrist in training, who has accomplished much in relation to health care advocacy and related physician development, including at the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Dr. Singhal will facilitate outreach related to authorship and readership of CJPL and lead the journal’s new section on leadership education and training for physicians and others (starting in 2025).

This issue of the CJPL includes a special section dedicated to Truth and Reconciliation in relation to the Canadian Medical Association’s recent apology to Indigenous people. This issue also includes a variety of articles, including a qualitative evaluation report on physician mentoring, another article in the health economics section series, and a memoir of physician leadership. In addition, we are trying a one-column format, with the assistance and support of our new designer, Kelly Wong. And we are clustering advertisements that had been waitlisted for publication. All in all, CJPL continues to improve in terms of innovation and quality while maintaining continuity of purpose and scope.

As usual, we would like to receive your input on CJPL’s content, process, style, and format. Please feel free to share your comments and ideas with me or any of CJPL team members. Your input is valuable.

Author

Abraham (Rami) Rudnick, MD, PhD, FRCPC, CCPE, CPRRP, MCIL, DFCPA, mMBA, is editor-in-chief of CJPL and professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Bioethics and the School of Occupational Therapy at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

Correspondence to:
abraham.rudnick@nshealth.ca; harudnick@hotmail.com